Word: fleshly
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...English people, such royal reminders in the flesh of what King George and Queen Mary might have been last week focused fresh loyalty, love and devotion upon what they are. Last week, for every Socialist town council in Great Britain that refused to spend a ha'penny on the Jubilee, there was a score of Socialist town councils that were spending pounds. Best seats from which to watch the Jubilee procession sold for as much...
...shirts he began to wear to class with the warmer weather revealed an old tattoo on his left forearm: an infantry insignia of crossed rifles above the inscription U.S. ARMY. Officials deemed the tattoo unacceptable, and Jenkins was carted off to a hospital. A doctor, he claims, cut the flesh bearing the offending words from his arm with a knife and scissors--and no anesthetic. "The doctor told me that they save anesthetic for the battlefield," he recalls...
...challenged from the opposite direction--not as an impossible novelty but as a theme borrowed from the literature of the non-Jewish world. Stephen Patterson of Eden Theological Seminary lists divinely irregular conceptions in stories about not only mythic heroes such as Perseus and Romulus and Remus but also flesh-and-blood figures like Plato, Alexander and Augustus, whose hagiographers reported he was fathered by the god Apollo while his mother slept. "Virgin births were a rather Gentile thing," says the Very Rev. John Drury, chaplain of All Souls' College at Oxford University...
Earlier this fall, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby appointed Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Tom Conley as the chair of a committee to flesh out the details of a J-term. Last year, the committee on pedagogy decided to “hold off” on “getting into the nitty-gritty details of a proposal,” says Liz Cohen, Jones professor of American Studies and co-chair of the pedagogy committee...
...finish the short survey before he or she is able to leave class or section rarely will produce comments of real value for such a weighty process as that of tenuring professors, and even the rare student who goes in-depth does not have the time to really flesh out his or her thoughts. On top of that, there are real problems with sampling bias, as you have to attend the last section to fill a survey out, and CUE Guide rating inflation—rarely do students give lower than a three for teaching skills...